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Sorority Row

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In his updated version of the 1983 slasher film The House on Sorority Row, director Stewart Hendler rolls out every clichéd and tired element of the standard slasher film with little or no imagination. What's worse, he fills nearly two hours with sorority life stereotypes that should motivate female Greeks to lead a boycott of this film.

At a wild house party, five Theta Pi sisters set up fellow sister Megan in a prank to trick her cheating boyfriend Garrett. This elaborate plot that is meant to scare Garrett turns even more bizarre when Garrett becomes violently irrational with a tire iron and the prank becomes deadly. Soon, a chain reaction of serial killings takes place involving nearly each of the sisters who participated in the initial party prank.

Leah Pipes, Jaime Chung, Margo Harshman, Briana Evigan and Rumer Willis (Bruce and Demi‘s little girl) play the five main mean spirited sisters-in-crime as they separately dodge a black hooded deadly killer who mostly stalks them in the Theta Pi house during rollicking parties. An embarrassingly overweight and wrinkle-faced Carrie Fisher is featured as house mom Mrs. Crenshaw.

Hendler films all these featured young attractive women with a cheap sense of male gaze, teasing male viewers with tightly framed shots of shapely bare shoulders, revealing cleavages, flat tummies, and long naked legs balanced in high heels. Cinematographer Ken Seng moves his camera in nervous almost handheld immediacy and under lights many outdoor scenes while enhancing nearly every clichéd dark lit room and hallway scene for standard creepy effects. There is absolutely no surprise that the film’s epilogue leaves the door open for a soon to be made sequel.